Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1887-07-20

10 the Gudrus.
The Guards drill on the streets,
Monday and Friday evenings, and the
manual of arms ON Wednesday and
Thursday evenings. Captain Hitch
cock intends that the Guards shall be
well versed in military maneuvres
by the time the encampment is held.
Twenty tons of paper pulp we're
shipped on the steamer City of Mack
mac, Friday, 1yFletcher, Pack g. Co.,
and goes to West Virginia paper
mill. On Sunday car load was ship /
ped on steamer Alpena, and goes to
Cleveland to be converted into paper.
The completing of the extension of
the log railway of Fletcher, Pack d
Co., near Hubbard Lake, has been
delayed on account of the difficulty
in getting steel rails. The steel rail
mills have more orders than they can
fill and many railroads are waiting
for rails.
Fletcher, Pack & Co. have placed
some modern machinery in their pa
per pulp works, and last Saturday
it was in operation. The new ma
chine leaves the pulp in long sheet
about five feet wide and thick as
wrapping paper. 1t is then made
into rolls for shipment.
Three thousand citizens can now
snap their fingers at disease or death,
we suppose. That many persons are
said to have each purchased bottle
of the great minstrel mixture. and
when disease gets near one of them,
all they have to do is to point the bot
tie at him. and the disease then makes
for one who is not armed.
Two boys, William and Harry
Clark, aged ~ and 10 years respec-
lively, were taken to the State Re-
form school, at Lansing, by under
sheriff Denton, having left on steam
err City of Alpena last Sunday. The
boys will remain at the Reform school
until they are 16 years old.
Miss Ruth Avery had accompanied
her father to his farm in Montmoren-
CIV county, last week, and on their re-
turn last Friday, one of the wagon
wheels struck against a projecting
root. The fastening of the hind seat
was broken by the shock and Miss
Avery was thrown out of the wagon
to the ground, and, we regret to re-
port, had the misfortune to break her
arm.
The passenger coaches of the D.,
b. G. q A. r. r. are in the compa-
ny's shop at Tawas, being repainted
and cleaned up. The Iosco, well
known as the parlor car, is TO be con.
verted into regular passenger coach.
In the mean time coaches from the
Michigan Central are used, and the
Wagner company have one of their
parlor cars on the train, and a colored
porter is in charge.
The steamers City of Mackinac and
City of Alpena, on their up trips, car
nv from 200 to $50 passengers, mostly
tourists. There not being bertbs
enough for all the passengers, many
have to be supplied with cots. The
steamers Atlantic and Flora also have
large list of passengers. A trip up
shore, on one of the palace steamers
that run here, is delightful way of
passing vacation.
The free minstrel show on Wash
ington avenue came TO an end Satur-
day night. The entertainments con-
sisted of music, songs, mechanical fig.
ures, free teeth pulling, and then the
proprietor sort of mesmerized large
numbers of the audience, and they
walked up and paid their hard earned
dollars for small bottles containing
some kind of mixture. The mana
ger must have plucked about $4,000
from his patrons.
The weather signals were again dis
played over the y. 8. weather office
in this city, commencing on Friday
morning last. The signals relate to
rainy or clear weather and the signals
are different from the storm signals.
The weather signals were displayed
few days, some months ago, but Un-
Gle Sans weather funds having be-
come exhausted, were discontinued un-
til the appropriations for the present
fiscal year were available,
Captain Persons, Of the Thunder
Bay Island life saving station has no.
tilted the government regarding the
dangerous obstruction to navigation
caused by the masts of the sunken
schooner Van Valxenburg. in the YES
sci route off Thunder Bay Island, and
the authorities will soon take meas
ures to remove the same. Captain
Persons has also offered to remove the
distractions If the government will